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The Murder of Emmett Till
On August 24, 1955, 14-year-old Emmett Till flirted with a white cashier in Money, Mississippi. then Four days later, two white men tortured and murdered Till and banned his body.Then the mother decided to have a open-casket funeral so that all the world could see what racist murderers had done to her only son. http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-death-of-Emmett-till -
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks, an African-American woman, refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery bus so they arrested her then when the African American community organized a bus boycott in protest of the discrimination they had endured for years. http://www.biography.com/people/rosa-parks-9433715 -
The Little Rock Nine
The American Civil Rights Movement, nine black students enrolled at a all-white Central High School. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/eyesontheprize/profiles/44_little_rock.html -
Greensboro Four
Four African-American college student decided to sit in North Carolina Woolworth's to protest segregation. -
Murder of Medgar Evers
In the driveway outside his home in Jackson, Mississippi, African American civil rights leader Medgar Evers is shot to death by Byron De La Beckwith. -
Birmingham Church Bombing
Four girls are killed and 14 are injured in a bomb blast at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham,in Alabama. -
Civil Right Acts of 1964
It is a labor law that the united states made to outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
The Voting Rights Act,President Lyndon Johnson signed a law to prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote under the 15th Amendment. -
Loving v. Virginia Case
The landmark civil rights made decision of the United States Supreme Court,that say that it prohibiting interracial marriage. -
Allan Bakke Case
the Supreme Court ruled that a university's use of racial "quotas" in its admissions process was unconstitutional, but a school's use of "affirmative action" to accept more minority applicants was constitutional in some circumstances.
